Exp 18 Soyuz and ISS viewing

[shuttle_guy]

<font size="2"><p>&nbsp;</p><p>http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544&lat=28.612&lng=-80.808&loc=Titusville&alt=1&tz=EST</p><p>The above link is set up for north Titusville, Florida USA. Other sites different times. </p><p>You can go to:</p><p>http://www.heavens-above.com/</p><p>to get to the times for your viewing site.</p><p>For north Titusville the ISS is on both of the above passes. On Sunday at 0301 local time the Soyuz will launch with 2 members of the ISS exp. 18 crew and a passenger who paid $30,000,000 (the passenger is a computer game developer son of astronaut Owen Garriott who flew on the skylab in 1973 and Spacelab in 1983).</p><p>The Soyuz will be in essentially&nbsp;the same orbit as the ISS. It may be a few min (possibly as much as 45 min) ahead or behind the ISS.</p><p>The Soyuz orbital data <strong>MAY </strong>be available on the below site by Sunday evening, if so then you can find the exact times for the Soyuz pass. The Soyuz will be <strong>much</strong> dimmered than the ISS.</p><p>http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/garriott-ok.html</p></font> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[MeteorWayne]

<p><strong><font color="#1b4872">Space Station Toilet Breaks Again </font></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/081010-space-station-toilet-glitch.html</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">"It failed late yesterday," NASA spokesperson John Ira Petty said of the Russian-built space commode in televised commentary from Mission Control in Houston. "Russian specialists are troubleshooting. The problem appears to be a [gas] separator issue."</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial">It's a familiar problem for space station commander Sergei Volkov and flight engineers Oleg Kononenko and Greg Chamitoff. A similar glitch knocked the space toilet out of commission in June, leading Russian engineers to rush a spare gas-liquid separator assembly pump to NASA's Kennedy Space Center spaceport in Florida, where it was packed aboard the shuttle Discovery and launched to the orbiting laboratory.</span></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font color="#000080"><em><font color="#000000">But the Krell forgot one thing John. Monsters. Monsters from the Id.</font></em> </font></p><p><font color="#000080">I really, really, really, really miss the "first unread post" function</font><font color="#000080"> </font></p> </div>

 

[newsartist]

<p><BR/>Replying to:<BR/><DIV CLASS='Discussion_PostQuote'>Space Station Toilet Breaks Again http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/081010-space-station-toilet-glitch.html&quot;It failed late yesterday," NASA spokesperson John Ira Petty said of the Russian-built space commode</DIV></p><p>This is one of those rare times when a flush beats a full house.<br /></p> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>